“Oct 7 2023”

When certain prominent Jewish community leaders in the diaspora denounce Israel’s coalition government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as an “existential threat” to the nation, which then, in their view, risks becoming “incompatible with Jewish values”, it says more about those speakers than about Israel.

Some individuals — even Jews, such as Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy — who claim that criticism of Israel’s government is a “Jewish obligation,” which, from their perspective, does not amount to “an act of disloyalty.” No one, of course, ever criticizes Israel; they must find that so disappointing.

Israel says it has killed the leader of Hamas’ military wing, one of the architects of the Oct, 7, 2023, attacks that triggered the war in Gaza.

Izz al-Din al-Haddad was killed in a strike in Gaza City on Friday, Israel’s army said.

He was one of the last senior commanders in Hamas’ military who had directed the planning and execution of the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel.

On May 11 and 12, the Palestinian Authority organized mass rallies across the West Bank to commemorate the “Nakba” (“catastrophe”) — the term Palestinians use to describe the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

Hundreds of Palestinians marched through the streets of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinians, waving flags, carrying “keys of return,” and chanting slogans such as “We live a new Nakba every day” and “We will never forget the right of return.”

Gullible New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, always willing to see the best side of Saddam Hussein and fanatical Islamic radicalism and the worst side of democratic Israel, penned a long investigative column, “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians,” alleging without corroboration that Israel soldiers, settlers, and especially prison guards have long committed sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners. The most fantastical charge: Israel prisons train dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners.

Scotland Yard is investigating election posters in Tower Hamlets after a complaint that they stirred up racial hatred of Jews.

The posters depicted a “monstrous characterisation” of a religious Jewish man in military uniform, with the text “Labour’s monsters”.

According to a report submitted to the Metropolitan Police, this was an alleged breach of the Public Order Act, because the image was “selected to appear menacing”.

The repurposed prison van rammed through one security fence and then another as the activists inside — armed with sledgehammers and crowbars — readied themselves.

It was the early hours of August 6, 2024, and behind the wheel was Charlotte Head. The 28-year-old charity worker had been recruited by Palestine Action and tasked with breaking into the Israeli-owned Elbit Systems’ arms factory in Filton, near Bristol.

Europe has a long history, from medieval expulsions to the Holocaust, of dispossessing, murdering, and expelling Jews. Today, this same impulse continues under the language of diplomacy and “international law,” now targeting the Jewish people’s biblical heartland by, once again, trying to force a genocidally hostile (here and here, article 7) so-called “two-state solution” on the Jewish state.

Toronto police are investigating a late‑night shooting outside a North York synagogue as a suspected hate‑motivated offence after three people standing outside the building were fired upon from a passing vehicle using what investigators believe was a replica firearm.

The incident happened around 10:49 p.m. on Thursday in the area of Bathurst Street and Hwy. 401, a neighbourhood home to several synagogues and Jewish community institutions.

A man accused of a firebomb attack that killed one person and injured a dozen others during a demonstration last year in Boulder, Colorado, in support of Israeli hostages in Gaza was scheduled to plead guilty Thursday to murder and other charges.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman faces up to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the attack in downtown Boulder last 1 June.

Soliman’s attorneys revealed he would plead guilty in a recent court filing in a related federal case. He was set to appear Thursday before a state district judge, Nancy Salomone, to do so.

Six months after US President Donald J. Trump unveiled his ambitious ceasefire and reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip, the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group remains more armed, entrenched, and openly defiant than ever. Far from disarming, the Islamist group now controls roughly half the Gaza Strip and much of its population, while making a mockery of Trump’s “Board of Peace” initiative and the international mediators sponsoring it.